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Thank you Ponytail! Excellent points. I am sure some of my neighbors have guns. I figure there are some in the area with Concealed Carry permits. It is MY responsibility to make sure that my children only visit homes that I approve of. It is MY responsibility to ask the questions of the responsible adults in that home. Checking lists of permit holders is not going to help.

If people are worried about the mentally unstable, they need to be worried about what that individual has access to - not whether or not they have a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
As for criminals, I don't think meth heads would take the initiative or time to do this kind of research into who has a permit to carry concealed. If someone is going to do this kind of research before breaking into your home - I would imagine that this would be a pretty successful criminal.

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I am curious why teens choose to keep their babies; why not give them up for adoption? And then, would they choose differently having gone through this? I appreciate that they didn't choose abortion.

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